Question

Find the following article:

Rune Lines - Influence of participation in strategic change: Resistance, organizational commitment and change goal achievement - in the 2004 Journal of Change Management.

Write an annotation that incorporates the principles we have covered in class. This annotation MUST be a MS Word document. No other formats (e.g., pdf, pages, etc) are acceptable; they will not be graded. Your annotation must address the following in no more than 250 words:

1. What is the topic or subject area of the article?

2. What is the issue being addressed, or alternatively, what is the objective of the article?

3. What are the author(s) findings / conclusions?

4. Provide a critical reflection.

Answer 1

Reflections and Explanations are provided in following answer.

Change management can be defined as a process which is required to Highly Effective organisational change or transformation inside an organisation which can be obtained with the help of the professional approaches which directly impacts the overall change inside the organisation effectively and smoothly.

Change management is a specific process includes all the approaches which are required to implement a change into a system.

Some implications which change manager faces in introducing the change into the organisation are as follows

• Communication

This is one of the main issues change manager faces inside an organisation, change in the organisation requires the proper communication which is mostly not done inside an organisation for implementing a specific change. Lack of communication creates confusion and also create disruptive results as there is no communication between the manager and employee which results into a problem inside an organisation.

• Providing explanations

Provision of explanations to the Employees about the change can be very difficult at the time. Most of the time it is really hard to explain to your employees about the specific change. Buying a proper strategy as well as pre decided system manager can easily increase its ability to grow the explanatory skills which can be used to explain the changes to the Employees.

• Implementing new tech

Implementation of the new technology inside an organisation could be very confusing as well as frustrating for the employees as it can change the hole pattern of the data management as well as the information flow. This specific change creates extreme frustration inside an organisation and lead change leader or manager into trouble. As the technology is totally new most of the managers are not aware of the specific results for the problems included in the new technology. They can be reduced by a learning the specific Technology before applying into the organisation.

• Conflict management

It is very usual that while implementing the change into the organisations, conflict happens. Managing the conflict is an essential quality of a change manager. Managing the specific conflict inside the company or the organisation is one of the most prominent issues while implementing a change. From a manager aspect there are so many conflicts going on inside an organisation along with the change happening so that the specific management of the conflict is really hard.

• Expecting the quick change

Most of the employees inside the organisation expect a larger benefit from the change provided at a very less period of time. This specific factor creates a feeling of failing in implementing change hence it creates a problem of demotivation inside the organisation and create complication for the change manager.

All in all we can say that most of the time change manager faces the extreme implications over the changes happening in the organisations . By maintaining a proper communication and being involved in the company's structure a change manager can easily reduce the overall effect of these implications and can provide support to the basic structure of its workplace.